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. 2015 Jun 5;6:416. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00416

Table 1.

Plant total dry mass and fraction of dry mass partitioned to leaves, stems and fruits of three tomato cultivars in response to fruit pruning treatment (data are collected at the end of the experiment, n = 6).

Treatment Total dry weight (g plant-1) Dry mass partitioning (%)
Leaves Stems Fruits
‘Komeet’
Standard fruit load 271.5 (±11)a 37.9 (±1.4)a 16.3 (±0.4)a 45.8 (±1.6)b
Half fruit load 275.1 (±10)a 42.3 (±0.7)b 20.2 (±0.5)b 37.5 (±1.0)a
‘Capricia’
Standard fruit load 278.2 (±5)a 36.3 (±1.0)a 17.3 (±0.6)a 46.4 (±1.4)b
Half fruit load 277.0 (±16)a 41.0 (±0.9)b 19.5 (±0.5)b 39.5 (±0.7)a
‘Sunstream’
Standard fruit load 317.3 (±10)b 45.2 (±0.5)a 20.1 (±0.4)a 34.7 (±0.8)b
Half fruit load 316.4 (±17)b 52.7 (±0.3)b 25.1 (±0.5)b 22.2 (±0.6)a

Means followed by different letters within one column of each cultivar differ significantly as established by the least significant difference (l.s.d) test at P = 0.05.